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Invictus Victory
Not every flanker justifies itself, and Rabanne Invictus Victory Eau de Parfum is the one in this line that plainly does, since it takes the Invictus name somewhere warmer and far heavier than the original went.
Pink pepper and lemon start it off. The lemon has gone within minutes while the pepper stays on as a dry rosy prickle rather than any real heat. Frankincense arrives early and is the material responsible for the seriousness here, a resinous smoke with something cold and stony behind it, and lavender sits alongside with a clean herbal sharpness that stops the middle closing in on itself. Then it sweetens in earnest. Vanilla is smooth rather than bakery sweet, tonka bean adds a powdery bitterness like the dust at the bottom of a biscuit tin, and amber binds all of it into one warm resinous mass. Smoke above and sweetness below is the whole idea, and it is handled with more restraint than the metal bottle suggests. The first hour projects generously, after which it draws back to arm's length and sits there for the rest of a working day, and longer still on a scarf or a jacket.
Cold months are its natural ground and evening its natural hour. It is marketed to men, it is comfortable in company rather than confrontational, and it dates from 2021.
The perfume side of this house is older than many buyers assume. Puig set up the division in 1968 and released Calandre the following year, then took over the company outright in 1987. Paco has since been dropped from the name, so the bottles now read Rabanne, and Invictus is among the handful of names that pay for everything else.
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